Overview
- Boston beat Toronto 5-3 for a seventh straight win, with David Pastrnak scoring his 400th and 401st goals and the Bruins going 3-for-6 on the power play as Jeremy Swayman made 30 saves.
- Toronto’s Auston Matthews left with a lower-body injury after a second-period hit and goalie Anthony Stolarz exited with an upper-body injury, and the Maple Leafs dropped their third straight.
- Colorado topped Anaheim 4-1 to snap the Ducks’ seven-game streak, with Nathan MacKinnon posting three assists to keep the NHL scoring lead and the Avalanche moving to a league-best 27 points as Gabriel Landeskog scored his first regular-season goal in over three years.
- Washington handled Carolina 4-1 behind Logan Thompson’s 30 saves and an improved special teams performance (power play goal, perfect 5-for-5 penalty kill), with Alex Ovechkin adding a goal and an assist.
- A first-period melee in Raleigh followed Nic Dowd’s collision with Frederik Andersen, capping a chippy night around the league that also featured roster blows: Hurricanes defenseman Charles Alexis Legault is out 3–4 months after hand surgery and Capitals forward Pierre-Luc Dubois is sidelined at least three months following abdominal and adductor surgery.